BIB_ID
411222
Accession number
MA 9480
Creator
Abercromby, Ralph, Sir, 1734-1801.
Display Date
undated [1800-1801].
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.6 x 11.8 cm
Notes
Abercromby gives only "Sunday Morning" as the date of writing. He was dispatched to Malta at the end of October 1800 to command the invasion of Egypt and the capture or expulsion of the French garrison there. Abercromby was wounded in the Battle of Alexandria in March, was transferred to the H.M.S. Foudroyant, and died on board on March 28, 1801. This letter was most likely written between November 1800 and February 1801.
Addressed to "Captain Young R.N. / Foudroyant." William Young was assistant captain aboard the H.M.S. Foudroyant during the preparations for the attack on Abu Qir Bay.
Written in the third person.
Docketed.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume III, page 252.
Addressed to "Captain Young R.N. / Foudroyant." William Young was assistant captain aboard the H.M.S. Foudroyant during the preparations for the attack on Abu Qir Bay.
Written in the third person.
Docketed.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume III, page 252.
Summary
Sending his compliments to Captain Young; informing him that there are "three Turks at Malta desirous of returning to their country"; writing that he "thinks it would be expedient to allow them a passage"; requesting that Young procure this for them.
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